It is now official -- I am retired as of the end of June, 2014. I shall post here only when there is a need to do so -- as in if I teach as a guest lecturer. Feel free to make use of my materials -- just provide credits if you re-use my material.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Enjoy the Christmas festivities, but don't forget -- there are only three weeks left after we return, so be sure to do some ho ho homework. Grade 12's be sure to catch up. Grade 11's make sure that you look at the provincial exam (Go to www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/search/ and look at the Socials 11 sample and key. Be sure to write it before coming back after the break.

If you have the time and inclination, the Ministry of Education is asking for feedback on the current Social Studies curriculum from teachers, students and parents. If you are interested in getting your two bits in, go to the following website and type away: http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/drafts

History 12

Keep working as per the assigned package. Remember, Essay #3 is due during the last week of December, questions #1-42 are also due on Thursday, Dec. 21 (20 marks), questions 43-89 ar due on Monday, January 22 (20 marks) and an in-class essay will be written on a topic prepared in advance on Tuesday, January 23.

Monday, December 18 - Finish Gwynne Dyer's War; Notes on Nuclear War. Begin the lecture on Decolonization - the British and French experiences.

Thursday, December 21 - Vietnam War - AV from the series The 10,000 Day War.

Friday, December 22 - Vietnam War - further AV from the series The 10,000 Day War.

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The Hero as Artist will not be due until shortly after returning from the Christmas holidays (Wednesday). This is another very large package. We will begin a very short Mannerism Package at the end of the week. It too will come in soon after the Christmas break -- at the same time as another very short package that will be assigned in the first week back, The Reformation. These two short packages will both be handed in on the second Monday after we return from the break; together, they are much shorter than the current package.

Note: The Geography textbook - The 21st Century World is available on the school server and is also accessible on the Internet at http://www.design4effect.com/soc11/ -- be aware, the text is now several years old and hyperlinks do not always work. I am preparing to revise and update the work, but have not had time to do so yet. PowerPoint material supporting the Geography unit is also available on the school server, but not yet on the Internet.

Chapter 1 will be quizzed on Tuesday. Chapter 2 2ill be tested after Christmas.

Be sure to get caught up after Christmas and you must begin preparation for the Provincial final exam.

Friday, December 22 -Take up homework. Video –Escaping from History. Gwynn Dyer on Mexico. Questions. Over Christmas, go to http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/search/ and put in the appropriate information. Download the exam and key. Write this for practice.

Saturday, December 09, 2006

If you have the time and inclination, the Ministry of Education is asking for feedback on the current Social Studies curriculum from teachers, students and parents. If you are interested in getting your two bits in, go to the following website and type away:http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/drafts

History 12Keep working as per the assigned package. Remember, Essay #3 is due during the last week of December, questions #1-42 are also due on Thursday, Dec. 21 (20 marks), questions 43-89 ar due on Monday, January 22 (20 marks) and an in-class essay will be written on a topic prepared in advance on Tuesday, January 23.

Tuesday, December 12 - Complete the Middle East to 1956. Begin the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Wednesday, December 13 - Complete the Cuban Missile Crisis. AV on the Crisis. If time, AV on Indian Independence.

Thursday, December 14 - Deterrence and Nuclear War.

Friday, December 15 - Complete Deterrence and Nuclear War. AV on Nucelar War from Gwynne Dyer's War series. If time, and if available: If You Love This Planet.

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Man the Measure of All Things package due Monday, December 11. The Hero as Artist will not be due until shortly after returning from the Christmas holidays. This is another very large package.

Monday, December 11 - Video: Art of the Western World; The High Renaissance. Work on the package.

Tuesday, December 12 - Video: Kenneth Clark's Civilisation; The Hero As Artist. Work on the package.

Wednesday, December 13 - Introduction to Michelangelo. Begin the film The Agony and the Ecstasy.

Thursday, December 14 - The Agony and the Ecstasy.

Friday, December 15 - Complete The Agony and the Ecstasy. Work on the package.

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The unit test on Post-War Canada will be this Wednesday. 30 flash cards are required to earn the full 5 bonus marks -- make sure that they are just terms or names with definitions; no questions please. The mark breakdown is 40 multiple choice questions (1 each), 5 definitions (2 each) and 3 from 5 long answer questions (6 each) -- for a total of 68 marks.

Note: The Geography textbook - The 21st Century World is available on the school server and is also accessible on the Internet at http://www.design4effect.com/soc11/ -- be aware, the text is now several years old and hyperlinks do not always work. I am preparing to revise and update the work, but have not had time to do so yet. PowerPoint material supporting the Geography unit is also available on the school server, but not yet on the Internet.

Tuesday, December 12 - Take up homework. Complete any PowerPoint not finished on Tuesday. Material from the CBC Archives on Native issues, including the Oka standoff. Prepare for the unit test next class.

Thursday, December 14 - Take up homework. Video segment on The Brundtland Report (note this is the 20th anniversary of the report). 1. Identify the key problems noted in this report. 2. Are these still the key issues facing the planet? 3. What should be deleted or added to this list? Chapter 1 PowerPoint. Read pp. 12-16. Do #1-9, p. 16 and #1-4, pp. 16-17.

Friday, December 15 - Take up homework. Complete any unfinished PowerPoint. Video, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and handout questions. Read pp. 1`7-20. Do #1-2, p. 17 and #1-4, p. 21. Note: The video is available in segments on YouTube, the Internet. Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwY4VU7zhsw&mode=related&search=

Saturday, December 02, 2006

If you have the time and inclination, the Ministry of Education is asking for feedback on the current Social Studies curriculum from teachers, students and parents. If you are interested in getting your two bits in, go to the following website and type away:

Keep working as per the assigned package. Remember, Essay #3 is due during the last week of December, questions #1-42 are also due on Thursday, Dec. 21 (20 marks), questions 43-89 ar due on Monday, January 22 (20 marks) and an in-class essay will be written on a topic prepared in advance on Tuesday, January 23.

Monday, December 4 - AV from the 20th Century History series. - One Man's Revolution, Cold War Confrontation, & India; the Brightest Jewel.

Tuesday, December 5 - Conclusions for the Korean War. The United Nations Organization.

Wednesday, December 6 - Post Secondary Liaison Day.

Thursday, December 7 - The USSR and Eastern Europe to 1956.

Friday, December8 - Decolonization - The Experience of India.

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The Man the Measure of All Things package is due on Monday, December 11.

Monday, December 4 - Video: Bill Moyer's Florence.

Tuesday, December 5 - Complete the video if time needed. Van Eyck and Van der Weyden. Work on the package (or on the next one).

Wednesday, December 6 - Post Secondary Liaison Day.

Thursday, December 7 - Grunewald and Bosch. Work on the package (or the next one).

Wednesday, December 6 - Take up homework. PowerPoint The Quiet and Not-So-Quiet Revolution and viewing guide questions. Material from Canada; A Peoples' History (Time For Change & Maitres Chez Nous). Read pp. 184-190. Do #1 in the sidebar on p. 188 and #1-4, p. 188, and #1-4, p. 190.

Thursday, December 7 - Take up homework. continue the PowerPoint. Material from Canada; A Peoples' History (Vive le Quebec Libre, Language Wars, and The Choice). Read pp. 202-206. Do #1-5, p. 206.

Friday, December 8 - Take up homework. Begin PowerPoint on Aboriginal Canadians - Treaties and Landclaims - take notes. Read pp. 206-212. Do #1-5 in the sidebar on p. 211 and #1-3, p. 212.

Saturday, November 25, 2006

School is back after the snow day.History 12Note: Topics #5 & #6 have been assigned as a single unit. There will not be a unit test for these sections as we are working toward the final examination now. Essay #3 is due in the last week before Christmas. Essay #4 is an in-class paper that will be given in the last week of the course; you may prepare this paper in advance but cannot refer to notes when writing this paper. Topic 5 & 6 questions will be collected in two installments - up to #42 will be handed in on Thursday, December 21. #43-89 will be submitted on Monday, January 22.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

History 12The Unit Test for Topic 4 and due date for work is next Monday. (Test will be 70 multiple choice questions, 5 map items, and 2 out of 4 long answer questions at 10 marks each. The total is, therefore, out of 95 marks).

Friday, November 24 - The Wartime Conferences. Test and Topic 4 work due Monday.

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The Middle Ages Unit Test is on Monday. (As usual, the first section is closed-book, with 10 image identification items - mostly titles of works and cities where they can be found, though a couple might ask for names of artists. There will also be 10 items identifying architectural features, 40 multiple choice questions, 3 longish answer questions requiring that you interpret illustrations at 5 marks each, and an essay question valued at 6 for composition and 2 x 6 for content. The total value of the test is, therefore, 103 marks.)

Tuesday, November 21 -Video or filmstrip: Man the Measure of All Things. New Package assigned (due in about 2 weeks - note, this is a very large unit). Work on package.

Wednesday, November 22 - Brunelleschi PowerPoint. Work on package.

Thursday, November 23 -Donatello. Work on package.

Friday, November 24 -Massaccio & Boticelli. Work on package.

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Expect the unit test for this unit to be in about a week. (This will include around 45 multiple choice questions, 5 definitions at 2 marks each, and 4 long answer questions from a selection of 6 at 6 marks each. The total value of the test will be around 79 marks).

Monday, November 20 -*Note: The cartoon interpretation assignment is now due Tuesday, as I did not go over it at the end of block 4's class. Take up p. 116, #1-5. Continue Canada Remembers; The Liberators; D-Day to the Rhine video and questions. If time, begin Endings and Beginnings.” Read pp. 116-121. Do #1-3, p. 121.

Friday, November 24 -Hand in Savage Christmas assignment. Take up p. 116. Discuss Japanese Internment – compare to Japanese treatment of Allied prisoners. Video on the Holocaust (Frontline; Memory of the Camps – Chapter 4. Available online at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/camp/view/4_hi.htm .) Assignment: Holocaust deniers claim that this genocide never happened. In a short composition, after doing some additional research, explain what evidence exists to prove that the Holocaust is a historical fact. 10 marks. Due Monday.

Friday, November 17. Video: The Western Tradition; The Late Middle Ages (available at www.learner.org). Work on package.

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The Family History Assignment is now due on the first day back after Christmas Break, to allow further family research. The next unit test will be given at the conclusion of the World War II chapter -- in about another week's time.

Saturday, November 04, 2006

History 12Essay 2 is ongoing and is due on Friday, November 17. The Unit Test for Topic 4 has been postponed to Monday, November 27, so as not to conflict with the Famine event. Other readings and work are as given in the Topic outline assigned on October 27.

Monday, November 6 - Appeasement.

Tuesday, November 7 - Appeasement (concluded) and AV The Road to War; France.

Wednesday, November 8 - Colonies in the Interwar Period.

Thursday, November 9 - The Spanish Civil War.

Friday, November 10 - Remembrance Day material. World War II lecture begins.

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With the boat cruise this week, the Great Thaw package due date is set for Tuesday, November 14.

Tuesday, November 7 - Faith in Numbers video. Note: This is a quirky item that deals with how change occurs in history and covers more than just the Middle Ages period. Though filmed in the early 1980's it is still highly relevant.

Wednesday, November 8 - The Western Tradition; the Middle Ages video (Eugen Weber). This is available at www.learner.org in streaming video.

Thursday, November 9 - The Western Tradition; the Feudal Order video (Eugen Weber). This is available at www.learner.org

Friday, November 10 - Romance & Reality package assigned. Filmstrip. The Great Thaw package is due on Tuesday.

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The Family History Assignment due date has been extended until the first day back after the Christmas break -- to allow students to meet with older family members. Unit Test on the Introduction to the end of Chapter 2 is this Tuesday.

Monday, November 6 - Literature of War Assignment due in class today. Lecture on the end of the First World War, video on the Paris Peace Conference. Read pp. 60-66. Do #1-6, p. 66.

Tuesday, November 7 - Unit Test. Read pp. 68-74. Do #1-7, p. 74.

Wednesday, November 8 - Take up homework. Introduction to post-war Canada. The Winnipeg General Strike, Lecture and video. Read pp. 74-79. Do #1-6, p. 74.

Thursday, November 9 - Take up homework. Filmstrip and questions; The Ecstatic 1920s video. Read pp. 79-88. Do #1-5, p. 88 and #1-3, in the sidebar on p. 86.

Friday, November 10 - Take up homework. Background to the Great Depression. AV on the Depression (if available). Read p. 89-97. Do #1-6, p. 97 and #1-2 in the sidebar on p. 91 and #1 in the sidebar on p. 94.

Thursday, November 2 - AV (if available) The Road to War; the Soviet Union or alternative.

Friday, November 3 - Curricular implementation Day - work on package and on completing Essay #2.

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Monday, October 30 - AV Art of the Western World; A White Garment of Churches. Hand in Frozen World package by 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 31 - Romanesque Painting PowerPoint (Sorry, I have to backtrack on the promise of a full work period -- note: today's presentation and Wednesday's will both be brief). Work on package.

Wednesday, November 1 - Romanesque Sculpture PowerPoint. Work on package.

Thursday, November 2 - Romanesque to Gothic Architecture - lecture, overheads and live demonstration of medieval engineering (The Human Cathedral).

Friday, November 3 - Curriculum Implementation Day. Work on The Great Thaw package.

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Monday, October 30 -Take up #1-3, p. 53. Go over video questions on The Killing Ground. PowerPoint on World War I - Life on the Western Front and The Home Front segments from World War I. Read pp. 54-60. Do #1-6, p. 60.

Tuesday, October 31 - 1) Take up homework. PowerPoint The Conscription Crisis segment from World War I. Read the sidebar on pp. 50-51 and do #1-3, p. 51 for Thursday. 2) Prepare for Wednesday's special presentation by North Vancouver City Mayor Darrell Mussatto. Prepare questions to ask the mayor - about municipal issues, about politics generally, and about his life as a politician and city official.

Wednesday, November 1 - Guest Speaker - Mayor Darrell Mussatto of the City of North Vancouver.

Thursday, November 2 - Debrief on Mayor's visit. TAke up #1-3, p. 51. Literature of War Assignment. Value: 10 marks. Due: Monday. We will use the laptop lab, if available, and library resources. If the laptops are unavailable, we will use handout material instead.

Wednesday October 25 - Take up homework. Background on the origin of World War I (lecture or PowerPoint). If time, filmstrip or video on the origins of the war. Read pp. 36-38. Do #1-3, p. 38. Pre-War Alliances Map Assignment - 10 marks, based on completion, accuracy and appearance - due Friday.

*Large Family History assignment distributed this week. This will not be due for well over a month, but you must get a prompt start on it. This is not the kind of assignment that can be completed last minute and it will require that you do considerable research about your family's background, interviewing parents and others.

Monday - October 16 -- Hand in "Why Study History" composition. Introduction to the study of history. Introduction to the "Family History Assignment. Read pp. 1-5 in the text book and do the handout questions.

Tuesday - October 17 -- Take up homework. Filmstrip The Opening of the Canadian West episode 2 and questions. Read pp. 6-15. Do #1-3, p. 10 and 1-4, p. 15.

Wednesday - October 18 -- Take up homework. The Laurier Boom. Filmstrips on Immigration - The Shaws of Midnapore and The Ukrainians. For each filmstrip, answer the following questions: 1) Why did this group decide to come to Canada? What pushed them out of their old homes or pulled them here? 2) How did this group of immigrants fit into Canadian society at the time? How did other Canadians treat them? Read pp. 15-20 and do #1-6, p. 20.

Thursday - October 19 -- Take up homework. Two more filmstrips, Dekasegi - using the same questions as Thurday - and Toronto the Good, with new questions provided in a handout. Read pp. 20-24 and do #1-2, p. 24.

Friday Oct. 13 -- Unit Test The Constitution and BC. Hand back Government texts and sign out History texts. Write a one paragraph to one page composition explaining why we should study history (value 10 marks, due Monday).

Thursday, September 28, 2006

***Essay #2 has been Assigned, chosen from one of the following topics:

A. Was the Paris Peace Conference failure or a success?B. Why did fascism emerge as a powerful new ideology in Italy and Germany during the 1920's and 1930's?C. Account for the success of Lenin and his Bolshevik followers in seizing control of Russia and establishing the world's first national "communist" regime?

Tuesday -- Video: Episode 10 of The Western Tradition; Roman Engineering. This can be streamed fromwww.learner.org

Wednesday -- Roman Sculpture PowerPoint.

Thursday -- Roman Painting PowerPoint.

Friday --Video: Episode 12 of The Western Tradition; The Rise of the Church.Social Studies 11Monday -- Complete Introduction to Judiciary. Videos on BC court system. Comparion of Adversarial and Inquisitorial court systems. Read pp. 72-85. Do #1-3, p. 75 and 1-7, p. 86. See Mr. Benoy Tuesday morning if any of this gives you trouble. Review for test on Legislative/Executive/Judicial branches of the Federal Government on Tuesday.

Friday Video Art of the Western World; The Classical Ideal (2nd half only - available at www.learner.org).

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Monday Take up #1-4, p. 36. Filmstrip on Parliament. Pros and Cons of the Senate. Essay Writing. Do #1, 3, & 4 p. 44. Prepare to write an in-class essay on What should be done with the Canadian Senate? Should it be maintained, reformed, or abolished? next class.

Tuesday Take up homework. Reminder of essay format. In class essay (18 marks - 6 for composition and 2 x 6 for content).

Thursday Take up homework. Role of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Video: Yes Minister episode -- compare the role of the Minister and the Deputy Minister; who runs the department? Read pp. 55-62. Do #1-5, p. 58 and 1-5, p. 62.